Underground Railroad
1810–1865* · Event
Informal network helping enslaved people escape to free states and Canada; tens of thousands escape; figures like Harriet Tubman.
On these timelines: USA, Master
More from USA
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Civil War (1861)
- US Constitution (1787)
- George Washington (1732)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Cession of Louisiana to the US (1803)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
Around 1810
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)